Overview

The workshop was the first in a series of three meetings on "Rebuilding American Security" funded by the Ford Foundation and organized by Paul Evans, Acting Director, Liu Institute in cooperation with partner institutions in Asia.

The basic question informing the series is how democratization in Asia affects national security priorities, views of U.S. security policy, and relations with the U.S.

The Seoul workshop was organized together with East Asia Institute to assess the responses of South Korean publics and elites to the Bush administration's security strategy, its approach to non-proliferation in the context of the North Korean nuclear program, and the future of the alliance.

The thirty-five participants at the workshop were ed to represent a variety of political, ideological and generational perspectives. About two thirds were from Seoul and the remainder from the United States, Canada, China, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand. The discussion was conducted in English.

 
Workshop Report

Changing South Korean Public Opinion on the U.S.
Nae-Young Lee - Korea University

Korea Backgrounder: How the South Views Its Brother From Another Planet
Peter Beck - International Crisis Group

Coping with the North Korean Nuclear Problem: A South Korean Perspective
Sung-han Kim - Institute of Foreign Affairs & National Security

Goliath's Game: U.S. Policy toward North Korea in Strategic Context
Wade Huntley - Simons Center, Liu Institute

EAI chairman of the board, Hong-Gu Lee, giving a speech in a welcoming banquet

Byung-Kook Kim president (in the middle), the moderator for the morning session on 11th

and EAI director Nae-Young Lee, the presenter for the session

Peter Beck, ICG Seoul Offfice director, the second presentor for the morning session on the 11th

Prof. Paul M. Evans from UBC, the co-sponsor of the conference

Participants, holding discourse with each other, from the left, Professor Sin-Hwa Lee (Korea University),

Gordon L. Flake (researcher in the Mansfield Foundation), Jim Wayman (US Embassy politics advisor),

Marius R. Grinius (Canadian Ambassador)


Having discussion in between the conference, Professor Wade L. Huntley and Seung-Ju Han,

former Minister of Foreign Affairs


Maureen E. Cormack U.S. Embassy publicity advisor and Professor Paul M. Evans from UBC

Surin Pitsuwan, Senator for Thailand

Professor Ezra F. Vogel from Harvard University and Wiryono Sastrohandoyo,

former Indonesian Ambassador to Australia

Preparing for the commemoration shot, from the left, Balbina Y. Hwang,

researcher for Heritage Foundation, Seung-Ju Han former minister of the Foreign Affairs,

Dewi Fortuna Anwar, Habibie Center, Indonesia, Surin Pitsuwan, Senator for Thailand,

Wiryono Sastrohandoyo, the former Indonesian Ambassador to Australia